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0 pointsenlyth3y ago0 comments

Gmail definitely does not enact this policy. Me and a friend managed to log into a shared gmail account recently we had from high school, to which no one logged in for more than a decade.

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londons_explore3y ago· 1 in thread

To my knowledge gmail has never purged unused accounts.

It would be a security nightmare to let anyone else register and reuse an email address anyway. So the only benefit is saving a little disk space.

But disk space for highly compressible text that will probably never be accessed is super cheap.

londons_explore3y ago

If costs got too much, they could easily take all very old emails and archive them - for example onto tape and cut down to one or even no online replicas.

Then add a button that says "Some emails and attachments older than 1 year are archived. Click here to retrieve them (takes 24 hours)"

eastbound3y ago

If someone had IMAP and sync with their mobile enabled, would it count as a login?

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